Today’s spotlight is a double pack as we cover both R.E.D. and R.E.D. 2. The comic adaptation features Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren as retired agens who reconnect for one last job. They reunite (minus Freeman) in the sequel to fight against nuclear weapons and Anthony Hopkins. The first one I enjoyed dearly, the second left me disappointed. To learn more about R.E.D., visit the career page. Stills and Blu-Ray screencaptures have been added to the gallery, alongside lots of videos, including trailers, television spots, interviews and three clips, all to be found in the video archive video archive.

For more information on R.E.D. 2, visit the career page. The gallery has been updated with stills, Blu-Ray screencaptures as well as captures from the special features. Again, lots of video clips – including trailers, interviews, bloopers and deleted scenes, have been added to the video archive video archive. Additionally, there are clips from public appearances to promote both films, including the Comic Con and the premieres in New York, Los Angeles and London.

Our next spotlight is Terry George’s controversial 1996 drama “Some Mother’s Son”, in which Helen plays a mother whose imprisoned son goes on a hunger strike. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills and screencaptures have been added to the gallery, and three clips, alongside its theatrical trailer have been added to the video archive. Additionally, a video of Helen and Terry George promoting the film on Charlie Rose’s show has been added as well.

Today, we go back 43 years (!) to cover one of Helen’s very first jobs on television, BBC’s five-part miniseries “Cousin Bette”, based on Honore de Balzac’s novel. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills and screencaptures from all five episodes have been added to the gallery, and five clips have been added to the video archive.

Our next spotlight features one of Helen’s finest performances – Showtime’s 2003 adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone”, for which Helen received Golden Globe, SAG and Emmy nominations (and would have deserved to win as well). To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills, screencaps and some fantastic on-set pictures have been added to the gallery. Trailers as as well as three clips have been added to the video archive.

Today’s spotlight is Peter Weir’s “The Mosquito Coast” from 1986, which – despite a starring role by Harrison Ford and the first notable American role for Helen Mirren – became a critical and financial disappointment. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills, screencaps and some fantastic on-set pictures have been added to the gallery. Trailers as as well as three clips have been added to the video archive.

Today’s spotlight features a magnificent early performance in the 1974 “Thriller” episode “A Coffin for the Bride”. It’s impossible to review this one without spoiling the story (just look at the pictures), so I won’t even try. Helen wonderfully plays a double role as a young artist and an obnoxious loud old broad. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills and screencaptures have been added to the gallery. And four clips have been added to the video archive.

This year, BAFTA’s highest accolade, the Academy Fellowship, was presented to Dame Helen Mirren, in recognition of her exceptional contribution to film. John Willis, Chairman of BAFTA, described Mirren as “one of the most outstanding actresses of her generation” and exuded that her incredibly successful career is testament to the determination, dedication and skill she brings to each of her roles. Upon hearing the news, Mirren herself said; “This is the greatest professional honour I can imagine, certainly one I never dreamt of as a schoolgirl in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. To join that list of legendary names is overwhelming.” The award was presented by Prince William, who said “The recipient of this year’s Fellowship is an extremely talented British actress, whom I should probably call granny”, and by Helen’s co-star Jeremy Irons. Here’s Helen’s acceptance speech:

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. I just want to just quickly blow a kiss to my husband who can’t be here tonight and he is such a great supporter. Taylor (blows kiss), got it? My journey to this place right here right now began with a great teacher, Alice Welding, who died just two weeks ago at the age of 102. She revealed to me the power of literature and she recognised my need to live in that world of imagination, that world of poetry. She alone was the person who encouraged me to become an actor. So I am standing up here thanking Mrs Welding and all the great teachers who have inspired the many creative people sitting here in this beautiful room. In fact, how many of you remember a great teacher who inspired you and opened the gate to the path that led you here? I want you all to put your hands up. That is a lot of teachers. So let’s right now thank those teachers, all of us together.

So my teachers in film have, of course, included directors — several of whom are here today – producers, ADs, costumiers, make up artists, caterers, grips, cinematographers, focus pullers, clapper loaders, writers, drivers, drivers, drivers especially of that honey wagon, you know, without whom we would all be squatting in the bushes. In fact I did squat in the bushes quite often. All the incredible carnival of characters who make up the brilliant and the astoundingly hard working army that march into battle on any film. I thank you all, all of you, in my past. It has been an amazing journey up to now.

I am going to finish with the words of a great writer. I think the words are kind of, in a way, apt. So, as I foretold you, our revels now are ended and these are actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air, and like the baseless fabric of this vision the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself. Yea, all which it inherit shall dissolve. And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. My little life is rounded with this honour. Thank you very much indeed.

Today’s spotlight is Peter Sellers’s dissapointing last film, “The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manhcu”. This 1980 comedy’s only grace is Helen Mirren as his girlfried, a loony Constable posing as the Queen. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills, screencaps and posters have been added to the gallery. A television trailer as as well as three clips have been added to the video archive.

We’re staying with Helen’s work for the BBC, but are going some fourty years back! In 1974, Helen first participated with the BBC Play of the Month installment, playing Beatrice-Joanna in the Jacobean drama “The Changeling” opposite Brian Cox. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills, screencaps and posters have been added to the gallery. The theatrical trailer as as well as three clips have been added to the video archive.

Helen Mirren will be presented with a fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The organization’s highest honor, the fellowship is given to Mirren in recognition of her “exceptional contribution” to film. She will receive the honor Feb. 16 during the British Academy film awards. “This is the greatest professional honor I can imagine, certainly one I never dreamt of as a schoolgirl in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. To join that list of legendary names is overwhelming,” the Hollywood Reporter quotes Mirren as saying. BAFTA fellows include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave and Martin Scorsese.